sandbach

These Silicon Valley folks really ought to read some Marx.

If low-level workers are a 'cost centre', why don't companies just get rid of them? Wouldn't they be more profitable if they removed everyone outside the 'profit centre' of senior management? Obviously not.

I like to do this!

Here's one I made for British Sign Language by scraping signbsl.com: https://github.com/sandbach/bsl-gcse

And an Arabic one by scraping Reverso: https://github.com/sandbach/arabic_vocabulary

Robert Bringhurst¹ prefers the en dash in the context of setting off phrases:

"The em dash is the nineteenth-century standard, still prescribed in many editorial style books, but the em dash is too long for use with the best text faces. Like the oversized space between sentences, it belongs to the padded and corseted aesthetic of Victorian typography.

"Used as a phrase marker – thus – the en dash is set with a normal word space either side."

¹https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780881791327/page/80/mode/...

If you wait until you're fluent in Spanish to get started with Japanese, you'll be waiting a long time.

I recommend learning them concurrently. It'll be easier than you might think!

'Polynyms', surely.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarism_(linguistics)

I think you're right, but what company's business model doesn't produce a conflict between the user's well-being and the company's finances?

The keyword AS would then have to be obligatory, to avoid ambiguity.

I'm curious, how do you avoid friction between inserting text and editing? Surely moving your hand to the mouse, arrow keys, or Ctrl key for an Emacs keybinding takes longer than pressing "i"?

I'll grant that Esc is further away, but it can be remapped.

Another detail you didn't mention: knopp or knoppe is a Low German (northern German) variant of Standard German Knopf. That's where the pf--pp alternation arises.

There's this great post by Steve Losh:

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/

Don't do that! If you're always using the same preamble, you should turn it into a .sty file. Then the preamble of new documents is just

  \usepackage{myessay}

Apologies for pedantry: in ðat case you should have used Þ U+00DE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN, as it begins a sentence.

Similar situation here. My company uses Skype for all in-house video calls, in large part because none of our clients uses it. So far, I haven't had any problems with it. The same cannot be said for Teams.

At Tianfu Airport in Chengdu, there are large screens with cameras attached that recognize your face and tell you which gate to go to. Convenient but scary, like many things in China.

As sibling comments seem to have missed the point: laws mandating helmets reduce the general rates of cycling, as people without helmets don't cycle at all. Cycling is so good for your health that the risks associated with not cycling are actually greater than those that go along with cycling without a helmet.

It's true that Chinese words don't inflect, but not all the grammatical categories you list are missing. There are aspect markers like 了 and 正在, and nouns are definite or indefinite even if they're not marked as such by articles: 有 can only have an indefinite object, for example.

It's worth noting that the benefits of Nix shell you mention can be enjoyed from the comfort of another distro with the Nix package manager.

Anyone interested in a statistical approach to the history of the industrial revolution should read The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848 by Eric Hobsbawm. It's the first in an excellently written series on the history of the 18th century, written for the interested layperson.

> What did they do in 950AD?

An example from around then or a bit before, arising from the spread of Buddhism in China.

The name of Vairocana Buddha, whose name in Sanskrit is वैरोचन and means 'solar', is given in Chinese in two forms:

1. 大日如来 Dàrì Rúlái

This form is a loan translation, where the meaning of the Sanskrit is translated bit by bit into Chinese (日 means 'sun').

2. 毘盧遮那佛 Pílúzhēnà Fó

This form approximates the sound of the Sanskrit word using Chinese characters. It's typical of Chinese phonetic translations, which still today largely just use characters, and thus often don't sound much like the word in the original language.

A classic example of this is Hindi and Urdu -- the two languages are largely mutually intelligible when spoken, which is the main criterion for being the same language, but are written with different scripts and of course used in separate and adversarial states.

That sort of thing is all configurable. It's easy to tell Doom Emacs to use Slime instead.

Anyone interested in formants and speech synthesis should have a look at Praat[0], a marvellous piece of free software that can do all kinds of speech analysis, synthesis, and manipulation.

https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

While this is obviously very much a minority concern, there are trans men who have periods and might be put off by the name of this app.

I don't know where the German definitions are coming from, but they shouldn't all be lowercased -- all nouns in German start with a capital letter, so "verständis", rather than "Verständis", is actually a mistake.

The documentation of the LaTeX package booktabs[0] is a great resource for anyone interested in beautiful table design.

[0] http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/bookta...

Unfortunately, the latter can also happen. I have used a TV in China that plays a thirty-second ad on startup almost every time, with no option to turn it off.